A story, moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, of a woman whose sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught in a random act of violence one sunny Florida day.
Heartfelt ... The novelist’s duty is to present such questions and then leave the room — to grant the reader space to ponder them. Danticat does this masterfully, particularly regarding the subjects of love and home ... Despite its title — the Kreyòl word for mourning — there is hope, however faint, in this tender novel.
